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Apsidal motion and a light curve solution for eighteen SMC eccentric eclipsing binaries

P. ZascheAstronomical Institute, Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, 180 00 Praha 8, V Holešovičkách 2, Czech RepublicM. WolfAstronomical Institute, Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, 180 00 Praha 8, V Holešovičkách 2, Czech RepublicJ. VraštilAstronomical Institute, Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, 180 00 Praha 8, V Holešovičkách 2, Czech RepublicJ. LiškaDepartment of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, 611 37 Brno, Czech RepublicM. SkarkaDepartment of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, 611 37 Brno, Czech RepublicM. ZejdaDepartment of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, 611 37 Brno, Czech Republic
2014en
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Aims. The Danish 1.54-meter telescope at the La Silla observatory was used for photometric monitoring of selected eccentric eclipsing binaries located in the Small Magellanic Cloud. The new times of minima were derived for these systems, which are needed for accurate determination of the apsidal motion. Moreover, many new times of minima were derived from the photometric databases OGLE and MACHO. Eighteen early-type eccentric-orbit eclipsing binaries were studied.

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